Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/18/see-the-first-armadillo-pups-born-in-north-america-since-2018.html
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OK, I thought “screaming hairy armadillo” was descriptive, rather than specific. Thinking, “Wait, there are wild populations all across the south, how can that be?” Understand now.
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Delightful Creatures! Great video, but I’d’ve much rather heard them scrabbling around.
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I was puzzled by the headline, as I’ve seen a baby one in KANSAS. I’ve seen dead adults as far north as Kansas City. But they must be the boring 9-Banded kind, and not the “screaming hairy” kind.
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What fabulous creatures.
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Armadillo pups are born all the time in North America, in the wild, where they live. It isn’t anything new.
Better headline: Non-native genus bred in captivity.
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Add me to the list of people confused by the headline. I also did not know Screaming Hairy was an actual species of Armadillo. TIL! And that needs to be a band name. A punk band, probably.
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I take great joy in knowing that there is an animal named the “Screaming Hairy Armadillo”.
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I too had a moment of panic: the only 2 armadillos to breed in NA since 2018? WETF?!?! then the reading compression part sent a note to the emotive part "did you see the screaming hairy bit? calm down, let me handle this’
Thx for today’s wonderful thing (cuteness capacitor now at 100% capn!)
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From Jennifer Sandlin:
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Since some here had not heard of the screaming hairy armadillo; maybe they have not heard of the pink fairy armadillo?
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